Content:
These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered sections 1 through 4 of the
ungrouped poem "Says" in the
1860 edition of
Leaves of
Grass
. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs from the poem in the 1867
Leaves of Grass
version; from
that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final
appearance in 1876.
Content:
These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 5 of the ungrouped
poem "Says" in the 1860
edition of
Leaves of Grass
.
Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867
Leaves of Grass
version; from that point on the
shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876.
Content:
These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 6 of the ungrouped
poem "Says" in the 1860
edition of
Leaves of Grass
.
Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867
Leaves of Grass
version; from that point on the
shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876.
Content:
These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 7 of the ungrouped
poem "Says" in the 1860
edition of
Leaves of Grass
.
Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867
Leaves of Grass
version; from that point on the
shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. The
cancelled lines on the top section of the manuscript appear to be a draft of lines
that were never published but that bear great resemblance to the various "Thoughts" and "Thought (Of . . .)" poems Whitman
published throughout the many editions of
Leaves of Grass
.
